Then & Now: Stuart D. Wilson, born around 1874, is remembered for waffles and bacon grease, among other things.
"Looking west on Riverside Avenue, Spokane, Wash. The Spokane and Eastern sign is the second largest bank sign in the world." It was 75 degrees this day, according to the second largest bank sign. I didn't know those digital type signs were around in the early '50's.
Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.
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My 13-year-old daughter took this one.
The countdown begins for Expo 74, the World's Fair in 1974 in Spokane, Washington. This building and the Union Station were part of the Riverfront Park when they put it up to a levy vote in 1971. It got 56 percent yes but it needed 60 percent to pass. Then Expo 74 plan shows up with the stations removed from the plan. What happened? Being in advertising and a railfan nut I got involved with saving these structures. I got the Spokane Ad Club involved as you can see on the poster. We had about 35 of these posters made for the effort to save them as the theme for Expo 74 was "Recycling" and reuseing buildings seemed to fit that theory so off I went to"fight city hall". We lost the vote by a 43 to 57 so down they came. The city did not play fair but what is new about that? They tore up the marble floors and photgraphed the dirt lines in the concrete using the picture in a newspaper ad saying "Do you really want to save this old thing?" Here a carne is tearing out the boiler from the building to the east of the station. Down she comes. Santa Clause came to the Ad Club Christmas party that year and had a gift for me. It was a brick from the Great Northern station and didn't everyone have a big laugh when he gave it to me. I paused for a moment and said to the crowd " I wasn't so much concerned with the bricks ....but how they were arranged!" I can still get angry over this destruction. Jerry Quinn
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Spokane City Planning Department EXPO'74 Photographic Collection Subject: EXPO '74 Description: Aerial of Havermal Island, looking east, pre-EXPO, 1972. Features Spokane River bridges, Great Northern (GN) Tower, and Railroads prior to the construction of EXPO '74 www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/ViewRecord.aspx?RID=D9D792CF51...
Then & Now: James P. McGoldrick, born in 1859, started in the timber business in Minnesota. Seeing that most of the lumber he sold came from the Northwest, he moved to Spokane in 1906 and bought a mill south of Gonzaga College, east of downtown Spokane. The McGoldrick Lumber Co. eventually covered 60 acres along the Spokane River. Logs were stored on the Spokane River and milled lumber was dried in piles outdoors. The company added timber holdings around the region and the mill became one of Spokane’s largest employers.
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Chief Spokane Garry was a chief of the Spokane Tribe whose long, and ultimately tragic life spanned the fur-trading, missionary, and white settlement eras of the region. His father, also a Spokane ch
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Spokane is a city located in Spokane County, Washington. It is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, as well as the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region. The city is located on the Spokane River in Eastern Washington. Spokane had 202,319 residents as of 2008. As of 2018, the population had grown to 220,100. The 2020 census officially placed Spokane with a population of 228,989. Spokane is the principal city of the Spokane Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is coterm
Then & Now: For centuries the falls of Spokane attracted Indians for salmon fishing in May and June. When white settlers began gathering around the falls, creating a settlement at what is now Howard St. and Spokane Falls Blvd., it was for the power of the water, pushing wheels to mill wheat and saw lumber.
On Sunday, August 4, 1889, fire destroys most of downtown Spokane Falls. It begins in an area of flimsy wooden structures and quickly engulfs the substantial stone and brick buildings of the business
